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ALFRED B. REEVES, OF COLUMBUS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO REEVES 85 CO., OF SAME PLACE.

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fiPEGTFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,109, dated May 4, .1886.

Application filed February 8. 1886. Serial No. 191.116. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED B. REEVES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Bartholomew and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cultivators, of which the followinglis a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in two-horse cultivators of that class in which the m spindles of the carryingwheels are pivoted to the ends of the arched axle.

The objects of my improvement are, first, to adapt a cultivator of the class described to be used either with or without a tongue or draft- I 5 pole, and, second, to provideimproved means for coupling the plow-beams to the axle and for supporting the plow-beams independently of the plows.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my 29 invention.

Figure 1 is a plan; Fig. 2, a side elevation of one-half of the cultivator, having the plows raised and the tongue removed. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the plows in working position. Fig. at is an enlarged detail view of the plow-beam coupling.

A is the arched axle, having its horizontal ends flattened, so as to be substantially rectangular in cross section. The wheels B B are 0 mounted on short spindles, the inner ends of which terminate in short standards 0 c, which are pivoted to the ends of the arched axle in the usual well-known manner. Short draftbars (1 and (Z project forward from the stand- 5 ards c and receive the single-trees e e. The plow-beam coupling consists of a pair ofjaws, f, Fig. 4, which embrace and are pivoted to the flat horizontal portion of the axle, so as to swing laterally thereon, and a segmental flange,

0 g, which projects laterally on each side of a vertical web, It, formed on the back of jaws f. The flange g is embraced between a pair of plates, j j, which are bolted to the forward end of the plow-beam, and have each an inward- 4 5 projectinglug,whi'ch engages the forward edge of flange g. The beam is thus secured to the jaws f, but is free to swing vertically thereon.

The cultivator constructed as above described is operated without a tongue, but there are uses to which a cultivator may he put where it is thought to be handled more easily with a tongue. I therefore provide for the attachment of the tongue T in the following manner: A circular plate, q, is secured to the center of the arched axle by means of clipbolts 0 a, and a pair of short plates, 8 s, are bolted to the tongue in such a position that their ends overlap and embrace the edges of plate q, thus forming a pivotal connection between the tongue and the axle.

For the purpose of holding the wheels parallel with each other and the tongue parallel with the wheels a light bar, a, is pivoted at its center to the tongue a short distance forward of its pivotal connection with the axle, and at each endto the draft-bars (1 cl at an equal distance forward of their connection with the axle. By this construction the tongue is free to turn from side to side, but is at all times central between the wheels and parallel with their line of movement, and the wheels are prevented from turning independently at their pivotal connection with the axle, as when no tongue is used.

For the pn rpose of sustaining the plow-beam 7 5 when moving from place to place, and also at the same time to prevent the arched axle from tipping forward, a bent lever, k, is pivoted between a pair of short arms, Z, which depend from the forward end of the beam, said arms being preferably formed integral with the plates 9', as shown. The short end of said lever is beveled so as to engage and support the forward edge of the coupling when the long end of the lever rests on the ground and the 8 5 bend in the lever is to form a runner on which the plow-beam and plows may be carried when moving from place to place.

For the purpose of connecting the free end of the plow-beam with lever is, so that it will 0 be supported thereby, a standard, m, having a notch, a, near its upper end adapted to engage the lower edge of a cross-bar, 0, in the plow-beam,is pivoted to the lever at 1;.

For the purpose of holding leverk up out of 5 the way when the plows are at work the standard m is bent at about a right angle near its lower end, so that when the lever is is raised parallel with the plow-beam the standard may turn backward and embrace within its bend the cross-piece 0, thereby holding the leverin position, as shown in Fig. 3.

I am aware that a runner having one end pivoted to the forward end of a cultivator plow-beam and supporting the plow-beam in an'elevated position by means of a standard pivoted to the free end of the runner and detachably connected at the opposite end with the plow-beam is not new for the purpose of carrying the beam; but I believe the extend ing of the runner forward of its pivotal connection with the plow-beam, so as to engage the coupling and support the axle-arch in an upright position,and the bending of the stand ard, so as to embrace the cross-bar of the plowbeam, and thereby hold up the runner, to'be new, as well as the peculiar manner of attaching the tongue.

I claim as my invention 1. In a cultivator, the plow-beam coupling consisting of thejawsf, having web h, and scg mental flange g, and plates 7' j, all combined with the arched axle and with the plow-beam, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In a cultivator, the combinatiomivith the axle, jaws f f, and the plow-beam connected with said jaws so as to swing vertically thereon, of arnist', lever 7c, pivotally connected to said arms and projecting forward of said pivotal connection and standard m, whereby the forward edge of the coupling is engaged by the lever and the axle prevented from tipping forward, substantially as specified.

3. In a cultivator, the plow-beam having cross-bar 0, arms j, lever 7c, and standard on, bent as shown and described, all combined and arranged to co-operate as and for the purpose specified.

ALFRED B. REEVES.

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XVI LIAM D. STANSIFER, TOM. E. Dlwinson. 

